It's Personal

A while ago I stayed with a family that was Jewish, they were Jewish by heritage but not by practice. I found it interesting at first, then realized it's probably a bit more common than I thought. Perhaps that is because this heritage vs. practice idea is definitely not limited to Judaism, but can easily be found in Christianity as well. People are born into Christian homes and adopt the 'role' of being a Christian or assume their parents' faith as their own because, well, thats just what you do. Therefore, they are Christian because they were born into it similar to being born Jewish or any other cultural identity. The funny thing is that the very nature of the word faith is personal both to us and to God, and it cannot be assumed or taken from another, it must be accepted and developed within one's own self. I don't think God sees us within a crowd nor do I think he associates us with one. He sees you, he sees the heart, and desires the innermost parts (ps. 51:6).

What if we dared to do the same? What if God was not labeled by what people do, or his people's failures, He was not a crowd or hype? But what if we dared to see Him as He is in His true character; His unfailing love, His power, His desire for relationship, His over abundant grace and mercy, His mystery. For when we do that we begin to see God more as He is rather than how we mere humans try to portray Him. Now that, is dangerous. There is a likely chance that this 'figure God out for yourself' thing will both destroy and compel. It will destroy what you thought you knew about Him, life and what is good. And it will compel you to live out what you learn.

Ephesians 3: 16-19 ¹⁶I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, ¹⁷so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, ¹⁸may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, ¹⁹and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Did this just happen?

Whoa...I did it, I got a blog. I got inspired after reading some other people's blogs to start my own. Who knows what will become of it, but as of now I thought why not? This could be fun or really time consuming or both but I'm excited to see what will happen.